Book description
Glue is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes,
and about the loyalties, the experiences and the secrets that hold
them together into their thirties.
As we follow their lives from the 70's into the new century - from
punk to techno, from speed to Es - we can see each of them trying to
struggle out from under the weight of the conditioning of class and
culture, peer pressure and their parents' hopes that maybe their sons
will do better than they did. What binds the four of them is the
friendship formed by the scheme, their school, and their ambition to
escape from both; their loyalty fused in street morality: back up your
mates, don't hit women and, most importantly, never grass - on anyone.
Irvine Welsh is the author of eight previous novels and four books of
shorter fiction. He currently lives in Chicago.
